Offers a comprehensive review at the biochemical and molecular level of the processes and techniques that contribute to crop improvement. This book provides topics that include a historical perspective of the advancements in crop improvement as well as cultivar systematics and biochemical and molecular markers in crop improvement programs.

Written as a concise clinical reference guide covering the current and future airway disease treatments, this text encompasses:

• pathophysiology of respiratory tract diseases
• the methods of measuring airway and clinical responses
• the concepts upon which many treatments are used in COPD and asthma conditions
• the way in which these treatments work, and how new treatments can be discovered and tested in various patient groups
• state-of-the-art pharmacological and therapeutic approaches in controlling pathophysiological processes in the...

The book includes recommendations for COPD from published guidelines (eg, the GOLD, ATS, and NICE guidelines) and presents them in the context of relevant clinical treatment issues. This is an in-depth guide on the management of COPD, concentrating on the impact of COPD on a patient as well as how healthcare professionals can intervene and educate the patient at an early stage and thereby slow the onset of severe symptoms.

This volume forms part of a prestigious series and covers the latest advances in our understanding of the pathophysiology and treatment of asthma. Our understanding of asthma has changed dramatically in recent years, and much of this new information is brought together in this volume written by inter- nationally recognised authorities. The aim of the book is to review in depth the changing concepts of inflammatory processes in asthma and to discuss the implications for research of this common chronic disease. Many of the advances in and future therapy our understanding of asthma have...

This issue of Clinics in Chest Medicine is Guest Edited by Peter J. Barnes FRS, FMedSci from Imperial College London and will fosus on COPD. Article topics include epidemiology, pathophysiology, cellular and molecular mechanisms and comorbidities of COPD, diagnosis and phenotype of COPD, pulmonary rehabilitation, asthma and COPD, biomarkers, bronchodilators, non invasive ventialtion, and new drug therapies.